Visualising all those billions

August 16 2009, 4:49am

The talented visualisers at Information is Beautiful have created The Billion Dollar Gram. It’s an attempt to help all of us wrap our heads around the obscenely large numbers thrown around the news of the world.

“Billions spent on this. Billions spent on that. What does it all look like?” http://www.informationisbeautiful.net/2009/the-billion-dollar-gram/ You’ll need the full size view to read the labels: http://www.informationisbeautiful.net/visualizations/the-billion-dollar-gram/ @iclazie

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